We need dedicated individuals to enter the field?especially during these difficult times?who can engineer stronger academic initiatives; who can solve problems creatively; who can think innovatively; and who can believe that all students deserve an excellent education. Consider a transition to teaching.

At WLC we offer the MA-Ed Science Instruction Specialty as a response to the current research and what we have heard from the PK-12 teachers who want to be ?brought up to speed? on what is new in science and technology as impacting inquiry-based approaches.

The universal quality of today?s classrooms is diversity. Students vary in learning style, language, gender, socioeconomic status, ability status, ethnicity, and culture. This diversity must be understood, appreciated, and carefully considered all throughout the learning process.

Wisconsin Lutheran College?s Applied Environmental Science and Ecology course is just completing its first session and students from various parts of the Midwest have been able to accomplish field sampling in their neighborhood streams and compare results.